Category Archives: ACTA
The Real Reason for Bill C-11/ACTA/SOPA/PIPA
One of the major complaints from the Motion Picture Association of America has been how can you budget a high-priced thriller, if you can’t charge huge amounts of money for tickets? They keep asking this question, even though they know … Continue reading
Copyright Wars Volumes 1 & 2
Greetings and salutations! On September 1, 2011 I had the great pleasure of publishing the first two volumes of my Copyright Wars series. They are up on both Amazon and Smashwords, and should be available on the Kobo, IBook, Diesel, … Continue reading
I’m Going To Forecast The Death Of The American Recording And Video Industries
Yep. Time to stick my neck out again. By my calculations 2+2=15, and I want to tell you about it. First off, this has nothing to do with file sharing, nothing at all. And it has nothing to do with … Continue reading
The Real Purpose of ACTA – Part Deux
OK, so most of you got the joke. Much to my surprise, some didn’t, and there were some articles referencing my original article who seemed to have taken it very seriously. OK folks – it was a joke. Sort of. … Continue reading
The Real Purpose of ACTA
The Real Purpose of ACTA There’s been a lot of coverage of the secretive ACTA negotiations. Or rather there’s been a lot of attempts at coverage. Since the negotiations are secret, the coverage to date has been limited to a … Continue reading
The Far Left Virtual Police State or How I Didn’t Do My Homework And Now I Look Like An Idiot In Front Of 7 Billion People
I don’t know what’s wrong with John W. Dozier Jr. I do know that his articles tend to be extremely uneven. Some times he makes sense. At least a bit of sense. Other times, well, he doesn’t do his homework, and sounds like he’s totally lost it. Continue reading
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
My wife asked me what the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is. The link above is to a good explanation of what it is, provided by IP Justice. IP Justice describe themselves as IP Justice is an international civil liberties organization that … Continue reading
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Doctor Michael Geist has more information on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and it sounds like the Canadian and U.S. Governments are selling out the populace. More than a little disturbed by this, I decided I’d go back to the Canadian … Continue reading
